Proverbs 27:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² The clever see danger and hide, but the simple go on and suffer for it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; But the simple pass on, and are punished.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² A prudent man sees the evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are punished [with suffering].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself; But the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

Common English Bible

¹² Prudent people see evil and hide; the simpleminded go right to it and get punished.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² The discerning man, seeing evil, hides himself. The little ones, continuing on, sustain losses.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² The prudent man seeing evil hideth himself: little ones passing on have suffered losses.

Proverbs 27:12 Cross References

Proverbs 18:10

The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous run into it and are safe.

Proverbs 22:3

The clever see danger and hide, but the simple go on and suffer for it.

Proverbs 27:11

Be wise, my child, and make my heart glad, so that I may answer whoever reproaches me.

Proverbs 27:13

Take the garment of one who has given surety for a stranger; seize the pledge given as surety for foreigners.

Matthew 3:7

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Hebrews 11:7

By faith Noah, warned by God about events as yet unseen, respected the warning and built an ark to save his household; by this he condemned the world and became an heir to the righteousness that is in accordance with faith.

Hebrews 6:18

so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible that God would prove false, we who have taken refuge might be strongly encouraged to seize the hope set before us.

2 Peter 3:7

But by the same word the present heavens and earth have been reserved for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the godless.